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In other news, Boise State is officially committed to the Big East. Good news for two reasons: firstly, this likely means their Olympic sports have found a home, and secondly, this puts them in position to be cherrypicked by an Elite 4 conference when they inevitably circle the Big East and ACC like vultures.

Pretty much. The Big Four conferences will probably just end up raiding the remnants of the ACC and the new Big East and that will be that. Thanks, BCS, for ruining college football.

He looks odd in this uniform too:

This was the only good part of that whole era: The overreliance on red completely killed it. I even like the graphite-era Jays unis better than those.

Atlanta would have one of the best uniform sets in basketball with a couple tweaks:

I'm not an NHL fan, but I've been following the Coyotes' bizarre situation. While I have no problem with them winning it all, it's impossible to look past how the residents of Glendale have been screwed over to prop up a (financially) failing franchise that they largely don't care about. That's all people are saying - winning in sports should never have to come at the expense of the city's wellbeing.

On the field head-to-head, they were. In every other capacity, BSU was better. Idaho's outdated facilities, shoestring budget, and tiny 16,000-seat stadium are not generally harbingers for success at the FBS level. This should have been obvious at the time, but the Idaho state government was full of UI grads who were desperate to keep up with Boise State, so they allowed it despite all the built-in disadvantages. Now, UI is in the position of either somehow pulling half a million dollars out of their ass to renovate the Kibbie Dome with little-to-no help from the state, or finally admitting defeat and moving down to FCS. Meanwhile, BSU has been fortunate enough to rise to the FBS level at a time when their market underwent a major increase in population, creating a bigger market for the school's athletics programs, especially football. This has allowed them to raise money, upgrade the stadium and facilities numerous times, gain a distinct recruiting advantage over UI, and ultimately survive as a successful FBS program. They've also been fortunate enough to generally hire the right people and have plenty of success on the field of play. A couple bad bounces here and there and they could also be in the position of basically having to move down alongside Idaho.

Besides the aforementioned ugly dump of a stadium they play in, the real reason is because they don't belong at the highest division. They saw BSU moving up to FBS years ago and demanded that they be allowed to move up too, despite lacking the infrastructure or support to have a successful program at that level. Idaho would be right at home in the FCS, and I don't mean that as an insult.

He's turned down UCLA, Florida, Penn State, Stanford, and UNC in the past few years.

Looks like Coach Pete is staying in Boise for at least another 5 years!

Michael Finley: He literally never wore that uniform with the Suns - it was a crappy Photoshop from the team website.

Weirdest of all... him as David Arias in the Mariners' organization.

Tyson Chandler: (Look closely at his hat.)

What's truly sad is that shutting down libraries and firing teachers in favor of keeping the freaking Phoenix Coyotes in a market that doesn't want them isn't considered radical, but refusing to spend a :censored:load of resources and time on unconstitutional wars abroad and overly-invasive policies at home is. This country has some messed-up priorities.

I think you're all confusing actual conservatives with GOP neocons. The GOP party-liners are perfectly fine with spending beyond their constituents' means on things like a failing hockey team with no fans, just at a slower rate than the Democrats. Why? Because sadly, there's a substantial number of uneducated voters who will vote for anyone with an "R" next to their name. And slowing down the tax-and-spend, intrusive policies allows neocons to smear their opponents as "radical" while keeping just enough of the corrupt status quo to keep getting special interest and lobbyist money. Actual conservatives would have kicked this albatross of a franchise out of Phoenix a long time ago instead of continuing to waste money during a recession.

I'll always remember Ray Allen as a Buck.... the 2001 Bucks were so fun to watch.

Best Packers uniforms:

Another one - I mentioned this in the Rattlers uniform thread, but the mid-'90s AFL was one of the best-dressed leagues ever.

This was one of the best hockey sweaters ever:

The pullover era wasn't all bad, and some of the pullovers should still be worn today.

I loved those too.... the only change I'd suggest to that set would be different shorts. It always annoyed me how the jersey triangle panel would just terminate and then a new one would begin on the shorts.

Ugh, no... those are atrocious. They look like rec league or AAU uniforms. Plus they remind me of Malice at the Palace and the Lakers smacking the Pacers around in the Finals. The current set is FAR better.

Not to mention... besides the Chargers, the Bears, Cowboys (sort of), Broncos, Texans, Patriots, Rams, and Seahawks all use navy as a primary color. Meanwhile, powder blue is used as a primary by the Titans and the Lions. Plus, a powder blue jersey/yellow pants combo would be unique in the entire league. I don't get why everyone wants the Chargers to look like a bland stereotype of modern NFL uniforms.

Ugh, sorry, I can't get past the navy jerseys' symbolism of the Spanos family's cheap, incompetent ownership. They're the ones who introduced the ugly, drab navy jerseys to begin with, and refuse to change it back to full-time powder blue because powder blue "represents the past, not the future" or something. Never mind the fact that powder blue is associated with the only championship in franchise history, while the navy gear has seen countless playoff failures, an asswhooping in the Super Bowl, and the Ryan Leaf era. And the old navy jerseys looked even worse than the current ones - no powder blue, and not enough yellow.

The Chargers should just wear yellow pants at home and on the road, promote the powder blue to the regular home jersey, and eliminate the navy crap entirely. Keep it on as a trim color, but nothing else.